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Colleton County Fire-Rescue (NEW YORK) — A murder investigation is underway after six people were found dead at the scene of a house fire in Colleton County, South Carolina, the local sheriff’s office said. A seventh victim, a 13-year-old, survived the attack in Green Pond, about 40 miles west of Charleston, and was hospitalized in […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — As investigators worked Monday to identify the suspects who killed two people and injured 28 others when they unleashed a barrage of gunfire early Sunday on a Baltimore block party, a reward was offered for information leading to the arrests and prosecution of the perpetrators. During a news conference Monday, […]
Nico De Pasquale Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A woman was pronounced dead early Monday morning after becoming unconscious during a hike in the Grand Canyon as temperatures reached triple digits, officials said. On Sunday at approximately 6:30 p.m., a U.S. park ranger received a report about a hiker who was in distress in the […]
Metropolitan Police Department (WASHINGTON) — The search for a suspect in a series of small but damaging explosions in Washington, D.C., continued on Monday. The explosions, all of which occurred early Sunday, seem to be isolated to three incidents in the northeast part of the district and are likely the work of a local vandal […]
Piccell/Getty Images (GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) — Authorities in two states are investigating fatalities from two separate incidents involving fireworks over the July Fourth holiday. One woman in Michigan was killed and nine others were injured after a firework exploded at a home late Monday night, police say. In Texas, one person was reported dead and […]
Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.) — A doting grandfather who immigrated from Mexico to give his family a better life and two parents on a fun outing with their toddler were among the seven people shot and killed last year at a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois. […]
kolderal/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday lamented recent shootings and called for stricter gun reforms in a statement marking one year after the holiday parade mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. In the July 4 statement, Biden noted shootings in past days in Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Texas, Baltimore, Maryland, Lansing, Michigan, […]
oscar acosta / 500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest for the 16th time on Tuesday, adding to his record for the most career championships of any eater in the contest’s roughly 50-year history. Chestnut, who goes by the nickname “Jaws,” ate 62 hot dogs in 10 […]
kali9/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — A suspect clad in a bulletproof vest and carrying a rifle and multiple rounds of ammunition opened fire in Philadelphia late Monday, killing at least five people and wounding two children, authorities said. The youngest of the deceased victims was only 15 years old. An unidentified 40-year-old was apprehended by officers […]
Barry Winiker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Secret Service investigating suspected cocaine found inside White House complex The U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday said it was investigating an “unknown item” found inside the White House complex on Sunday that sources said was described in radio traffic as a cocaine-like substance. “On Sunday evening, the White House […]
